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As Exhibit A, we offer the recent trials and tribulations of the so-called Internet stocks, trials and tribulations that said less about the actual business of the Internet than about the manic behavior of Wall Street in a just-won't-quit bull market.
A TV-insider cover story recounts the tribulations of ABC Entertainment President Jamie Tarses, the first woman to head a network entertainment division.
Certainly it’s a town for that most Parisian of creatures, the flâneur, or stroller, wandering at leisure through narrow back streets, paying due homage to the monuments of Québec City’s past triumphs and tribulations, but even more alert to the colors and smells of the living present.
Most critics like this "surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s" (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). The title refers to two Salt Lake City punks whose tentative attempts at rebellion are more funny and halfhearted than seriously anarchistic: It's "an absurdist coming-of-age comedy" that's "better defined by its polish than by punk trappings" (Maslin, New York Times ). Some are not impressed with the film's watered down rebellion: "[T]his energetic but poorly structured, rather self-congratulatory look at spike-haired rebelliousness in mid-'80s Utah could strike unbiased viewers as more grating than gratifying," and the film "doesn't quite grasp how its slick, flashy package undermines any actual punk cred" it might have (Dennis Harvey, Variety ). (Brush up on your own punk cred by seeing how many of these bands you know.)
M&S are testy—which they may have every right to be in light of the trials and tribulations of women—but their moody petulance does not lead to a winning, let alone diplomatic style, and their purpose is accordingly ill served.
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